Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Quotes

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. "Above such brutality, are you?" "We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom," Dumbledore said calmly. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit - " "There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort. "You are quite wrong," said Dumbledore, speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks. "Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

War is death's feast.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

Warre is deaths feast.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

It's wrong to kill.